.online is a

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(gTLD) of the

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(DNS) used in the

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History

In 2012,

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announced it would be expanding the range of domain extensions to further organize the Internet with new TLD's being requested by multiple parties. Six companies including Radix, Tucows,

Namecheap Namecheap is an American ICANN-accredited domain name registrar and web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company was founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall and has since grown to become one of the largest independent domain registra ...

, I-Registry Ltd., WhatBox?, and Donuts (Bitter Frostbite, LLC) filed applications for this TLD. The .online TLD was launched in August 2015. It is currently owned and operated by Radix, founded by

Bhavin Turakhia Bhavin Turakhia (born 21 December 1979), is an entrepreneur, and the founder of Titan, Flock, Radix, CodeChef, and Zeta. In 2016, Bhavin, a billionaire, was ranked as the 95th richest person in India, along with his brother Divyank Turakhia, ...

. Initially, it was a joint venture between Radix, Tucows, and Namecheap after they won the rights to .online in a private auction in 2014. Radix bought out full rights from Namecheap and Tucows to become the exclusive owner of the TLD in 2015. The TLD was the first to register over 38,000 domains in the first 24 hours, making it the largest new gTLD launch of its time. In November 2015, .online became the fastest new gTLD to exceed 100,000 registrations and, as of 2018, surpassed one million registrations from over 230 countries, making it the fifth largest nTLD by zone size. Based on an internal analysis by Radix, 65% of developed .online domains are in use by SMBs, while the company had generated over $13M in total revenue from the gTLD . In 2017, .ONLINE won the Best New gTLD Award at the Global Domain Summit in China.

Usage

This gTLD is used by an array of websites. In 2017, Casino.online sold for $201,250 to become the largest new gTLD sale of its time."Radix scores with Casino.online selling for $201,250"
''The Domains''. Retrieved 2020-05-15.

References

External links

.online Domains
Official site
.online
on Radix
.online
on ICANNWiki {{DEFAULTSORT:Online Internet properties established in 2015 Generic top-level domains